JUNIPER'S DAUGHTER - FRAGMENTED WHOLE/BLACK LENSE

JUNIPER'S DAUGHTER - FRAGMENTED WHOLE/BLACK LENSE

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JUNIPER'S DAUGHTER - FRAGMENTED WHOLE/BLACK LENSE

Ebook short description

This is Nick Armbrister's new book, featuring short stories and poetry on a variety of topics, in his Juniper's Daughter series. Juniper's Daughter is a witch with a difference. With stories like Barren, about a woman banished to a remote island, and poetry on many topics, both light and dark, this book is Nick's first release of 2012. He is working on a new poetry collection for future release.

Extended description

This is Nick Armbrister's new book, featuring short stories and poetry on a variety of topics, in his Juniper's Daughter series. Juniper's Daughter is a witch with a difference; no flying broom here but a silver flying saucer! She stars in his other novels and her job is to fight evil and save the world. Will she win?

Stories like Barren, about a woman banished to a remote island and Fragmented Whole, where a holiday goes badly wrong for three streetwise women are here. Poetry on many topics, both light (like Damp, a trip outdoors on a rainy day), and dark (like I Become Nothing, a soul searching poem on war) are featured. This book is Nick's first release of 2012 and is in two parts in one volume; poetry and short stories.

He is working on a new poetry collection for future release.

CIRCLE GAL

Gal in the circle can go anywhere. Will she go to me and not be like the rest? She can go under the sea in her invisible magic sphere that protects her from harm. With the ability to camouflage it, she can hide in plain sight or appear as a normal girl. Her name is every name but I call her Juniper's Daughter. A wise witch without a broom. She uses a flying disc stolen from the aliens to fly about, fixing the broken world.

FLY

Where are you in the sky in relation to me? Looping round in a great curve coming to get me, down the other side. Do you see me in my green and yellow stunt plane? I see you in your oh so pretty wooden airplane moving like an angel. We fly and maneuver like swirling dervishes as the ground replaces the blue, unreal three dimensional actions. God must have let us do it. Nothing feels like it. Only flight.

SLEEPING MONSTER – JUNIPER'S DAUGHTER IN TROUBLE

She was in trouble and running for her life through the forest. She was mortal now, so very human and frail, as fragile as a spring flower under threat from an immense frost. The frost dragon was chasing Juniper's Daughter through the forest, a night terror threatening to suck the very lifeblood from the witch. A slow horrible awful human death with no rebirth, for she had made a pact with her number one enemy, Satan, and bargained her soul away for a mere mortal man, to save him from the gallows. To save his life so she could be with him for one short human lifetime, together.

Her Mother Juniper had gone crazy and tried to kill her daughter with lightning from the sky and small meteors from space. Slightly wounded and very scared, the former witch knew her Mother had failed. The woman who was once Juniper's Daughter lived and ran for her life, her Mother abandoned her only child who had cast her lot in with the Devil. For the sake of a mere mortal man who was condemned to death for stealing a chicken, such was the way in medieval Saxony. Would my Mother really kill me, wondered the panicked girl? Would she?

The ice dragon made another pass, sending freezing air and ice thundering down into the trees, missing the vulnerable girl by yards. Soon she would be hit, this she knew; it was her predicament now. Events from before led to this moment. How could she forget them?

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A storm appeared before the man could be hung; torrential rain flooded the town square forcing the executioner and population to flee to higher ground, leaving the thief on the gallows. Juniper's Daughter caused the storm to save her love; against her Mother's wishes, for the man wasn't innocent, he was a criminal with a dark past of black arts and murder. Crimes he got away due to Satan backing him. He thought the theft of a single thin chicken to feed his starving stomach would go unpunished and noticed, for the first time in his life he was wrong. Satan was about to cause an earthquake to topple the gallows and free the man but something stopped him seconds before the ground shook. A freak storm not of his doing – Juniper's Daughter was here!

Clouds coiled in the blue sky darkening it, rain fell down in torrents drenching the crowd who wanted to see a hanging, good medieval entertainment. With the man now free and in the arms of the witch, Satan flung a lightning bolt down hitting the witch and burning her badly. She was on the edge of death with the former captive holding her head in his hands, enemy and witch crazily brought together in a surreal situation.

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